What if all technology was wiped out?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

There was a TV series about this made about 10-15 years on this premist called Revolution. Got cancelled after two or three seasons.

Count Dracula

It would be a short term problem, but i don't think it would be a cataclysmic event. It could well capitulate to global panic and cause major disruption. But I think we would be up and running again fairly sharpish.

The irony about your examples of solar flares, is the ever growing populace behind the very obvious theory that global warming is in fact a direct result of solar flare activity... which is in fact the real culprit behind our environmental problems and is the main reason our Ozone layer has been decreasing? It makes an awful lot of sense and casts an eerie shadow on people idolising the Aurora Borealis every year?

That kryptonite glow from the north, is actually a message from the Arctic Gods, telling us that we have been wasting our time and energy, human shaming ( or bovine shaming ) our environmental predicament.... when in fact it is really an intergalactic problem that humans have no possibility of resolving.

Far more likely. Don't forget, you mortals are the same human race that once thought the world was flat, incarcerated Galileo for stating the sun was the centre of the solar system, thought that World War 1 was a good idea and still cannot explain what the vermiform appendix is actually for.

65535

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Solar flares (CME - Coronal Mass Ejections) hit the earth all the time - Ham radio ops and others are very aware of them now - apparently when the moon landing was happening they were not able to forcast them and one missed them.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

Ubbquittious

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Ha ha I wish. Be interesting to see how people would last around here with no car, spar and the chipper/chinese closed.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

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People in cities be getting out of the city pretty fast.

893bet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120639633#Comment_120639633

Disperse from Dublin? And live where exactly?

I think this is fascinating topic. I am watching the walking dead from the start at the moment. On season 6 (I stopped watching at season 8 a few years back). But that scavenging would be thr norm…..within a week…..a week…….most peopes houses have less than a weeks dry food……no phone to call the police……and within a week no salary being paid, no value to money etc so no police there to anaswer the phone…..

Question for the tech folk. Would all the new PV panels works with out a power in supply as it stands?

Reminds me to go purchase a few boxes of shotgun cartridges.

notAMember

Do NONE of you know how to light a fire and bbq a few veggies.

No electronics is just a long camping trip. Supply chains would adjust. Ireland is absolutely flooded with food, it exports loads.

Hospitals are probably where things would suffer, but honestly, if there's enough bleach, you can muddle through plenty of treatments with a knife.

You're not going to die if your phone stops working. Christ.

taxAHcruel

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Cool :) We have avoided the screens so far. So it has not yet been a problem. Though they are not yet teens.

But it is not the screens themselves that would bother me. I have nothing particularly against them. It is the idea that while using them they might rudely ignore someone talking to them or not answer. That I would take issue with and address very swiftly and view it as a good parenting issue. But I would say the same about television, books, and many other things too. So I wouldn't want to seem like I am singling out screen use as some particular devil.

As for how we got through the teen years without being so interconnected I strangely remember it being the opposite. We were very disconnected. I remember groups of teens walking around "together" but actually each on their own individual Sony Walkman playing loud.

jackboy

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The food would not last as long as you think. All the shops would be looted within a few days. Then it will be down to neighbours to fight it out over those scraps. It would be too late for most to plant food and any existing crops would be quickly raided.

Hospitals would be shut down in a few days as staff would all immediately leave to go fight in the streets over food.

City people would head for the countryside but all remaining scraps of food would be well hidden at that stage so they would be just walking to their deaths.